After Congress president Rahul Gandhi said today that last Friday's lynching in Alwar was brought on by PM Narendra Modi's "brutal New India", union minister Smriti Irani accused him of "vulture politics" and minister Piyush Goyal called him a "merchant of hate."

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Jul 23, 2018, 15:23 IST

Highlights

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said today that last Friday's lynching in Alwar was brought on by PM Narendra Modi's 'brutal New India'

The BJP's Smriti Irani hit back at him accusing him of 'vulture politics'

Her party colleague Piyush Goyal called Rahul a 'merchant of hate'

Relatives of Rakbar at the hospital in Alwar on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: After Congress president Rahul Gandhi said today that last
Friday's lynching in Alwar
+ was brought on by PM Narendra Modi's "brutal New India", union minister Smriti Irani accused him of "vulture politics" and minister Piyush Goyal called him a "merchant of hate."

Earlier on Monday, the Congress president tweeted saying Modi's "brutal New India" is to blame for the callousness of the Rajasthan police who overnight Friday delayed taking a lynching victim to hospital by three hours, after which the man was brought there dead on arrival. Rahul further said that in this 'New India', " humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed and left to die."

Irani hit back saying the Congress "presided over the worst form of hate in 1984, Bhagalpur & Nellie & many other instances".

Rahul Gandhi’s family presided over the worst form of hate in 1984, Bhagalpur & Nellie & many other instances. It… https://t.co/kUOI83ZWIm

The Congress president was referring to the fact that it took Alwar police more than three hours to travel 6km while taking the critically injured victim of lynching, Rakbar Khan, to the nearest hospital, the Community Health Centre in Ramgarh, on Saturday.

Rather than save the life of the 31-year-old youth allegedly lynched by cow vigilantes on Friday night, the two cows recovered from him seemed to have been the police’s priority. The cows were taken to a gaushala 10km away a good one hour before Khan was brought to the CHC, dead. According to the health centre’s OPD register, a copy of which is with TOI, Khan was brought in at 4am.

Goyal berated Rahul saying Rajasthan "has already assured strict and prompt action." And a minister in BJP-ruled Rajasthan said on Monday that it is trying to verify this information "and if it is found true, we will take action against those responsible."

Goyal further said that considering the state was already on the case, Rahul was shedding "crocodile tears" and added, "Enough is Enough. You are a MERCHANT OF HATE (emphases his)."

Irani, concurred with Goyal, of course.

"Not a single instance goes by where he doesn't attempt to rupture social bonds for electoral gains," she said.

Sports minister Rajyavardhan Rathore also asked Rahul Gandhi to stop using a crime for political gains.

Mr Rahul Gandhi, STOP using a crime for political gains. The local police is already on the case. Justice will be… https://t.co/uG1S6jjfI9

On Friday night, rather than save the life of the 31-year-old youth allegedly lynched by cow vigilantes, the two cows recovered from him seemed to have been the police's priority. The cows were taken to a gaushala 10km away, a good hour before Khan was brought to the hospital - dead.

According to the health centre's register, a copy of which is with TOI, Khan was brought in at 4am. The FIR says police were alerted about the attack at 12.41am by a 'gau rakshak', Naval Kishore Sharma. Ramgarh police said a team reached the lynching spot within 15-20 minutes.

"They (police) brought him at 4am and as he was brought dead, I directed that the body be shifted to the mortuary," Dr Hasan Ali, who was the duty officer at the hospital, told TOI.

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